Boolies Great
Boolies Great is a townland in the civil parish of Duleek, barony of Duleek Upper, Co. Meath.
- Area
- 157.4 ha
- 389 acres
- Land parcels
- 62
- registered freehold, median 2,997 m² (0.3 ha, 0.74 acres)
- Zoning
- P5
- RA - Rural Area
- Planning
- 7
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
62 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Boolies Great, from 14 m² to 406,983 m² (40.7 ha, 100.57 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 28 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
- P5RA - Rural Area (Mixed/general primary sector uses, including 'rural')
Meath County Development Plan 2021-2027 (As Varied), Meath · 90 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
24 Aug 2023Conditional
a) Retention permission for an existing silage pit and dungstead. b) Permission to construct straw bedded calving shed. c) Permission to construct cubicle shed with underground slatted storage tank. d) Permission to upgrade existing farm entrance and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Retention · Meath County Council, 2360232
18 May 2023N/a
a) Permission to construct straw bedded calving shed. b) Permission to construct cubicle shed with underground slatted storage tank. c) Permission to construct silage pit and dungstead. d) Permission to upgrade existing farm entrance and all associated site works
Permission · Meath County Council, 2360049
26 Aug 2022Refused
A. Construction of new straw bedded calving shed B. Construction of new cubicle shed with underground slatted storage tank C. Construction of silage pit and dungstead, and all associated site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 221119
18 Aug 2022Conditional
the construction of 1. To replace existing septic tank and replace with new wastewater treatment system and polishing filter 2. Retention of 2-storey extension to rear of dwelling with balcony and all ancillary site works. Significant further information/revised plans submitted on this application
Permission · Meath County Council, 221083
16 Oct 2018Conditional
dwelling house, detached domestic garage, wastewater treatment unit and percolation area and all associated site works
Permission, 2 homes · Meath County Council, AA181216
23 May 2018Conditional
development will consist of the following works: 1. A proposed two storey extension to the rear with a single storey link extension to the existing bungalow comprising of a kitchen, dining & living area, utility room, games room and gym at ground floor level and three no. bedrooms, two ensuite toilets and a bathroom at first floor level. 2. A proposed single storey swimming pool extension to the rear. 3. Internal and external alterations works to the existing bungalow. 4. A single storey porch extension to the front of the existing bungalow. 5. A proposed single storey double garage and workshop to the side garden 6 An upgrade of the wastewater treatement system to an Aquamax waste water treatment system and 7. The retention of the existing two metre high front and side masonry boundary walls with two metre high timber entrance gates
Permission · Meath County Council, AA180529
9 May 2018N/a
development will consist of the following works: 1. A two storey extension to the rear with a single storey link extension to the existing bungalow comprising of a kitchen, dining & living area, utility room, games room and gym at ground floor level and three no. bedrooms, two ensuite toilets and a bathroom at first floor level. 2. A single storey swimming pool extension to the rear. 3. Internal and external alterations works to the existing bungalow. 4. A single storey porch extension to the front of the existing bungalow. 5. A single storey double garage and workshop to the side garden and 6. The retention of the existing two metre high front and side masonry boundary walls with two metre high timber entrance gates
Permission · Meath County Council, AA180458
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Boolies Great.
Recorded monuments
- ME033-005 Earthwork
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Subrectangular slightly raised area (dims. 30m N-S , 16m E-W, H c. 0.5m).
- ME033-006 Mound
Description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 10 July 2007 Circular mound truncated on N by roadway (diam. c. 15m, H up to 2m).
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Boolies Great.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Boolies Great, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low, partly inferred.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Boolies Great.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Boolies Great with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Meath.
The townland
- Name
- Boolies Great
- Area
- 1,574,132 m² (157.41 ha, 388.98 acres)
- Civil parish
- Duleek, and its townlands
- Barony
- Duleek Upper
- Electoral division
- Ardcath, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 2,119 people lived in 721 households in the Ardcath electoral division. 86% of households owned their home. 25% of homes were built since 2001. 9% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Athcarne, Boolies Little, Coolfore, Fennor, Johnstown, Riverstown, Scatternagh
- Placenames
- Boolies Great on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.